Since its inception in 2004, the PhysX API that Nvidia acquired as part of its Ageia purchase (and then adapted to use GeForce GPUs instead) and physics technology has been integrated into a ...

PhysX, which was created by Ageia in 2004 and later acquired by Nvidia, played a key role in physics-enhanced gaming, powering effects like ragdoll physics, cloth simulation, and volumetric fluids ...

But in the years between, there was PhysX. PhysX started as a simulation engine from a Swedish firm, NovodeX, then was acquired by Ageia in 2004 and expanded to include hardware cards. Nvidia's ...

PhysX, the game-specific graphics technology ... that physics calculations would be performed on the GPU (formerly the Ageia PPU) instead of the CPU, which promised faster frame rates and better ...